Nicolas Maduro previously had publicly accused the U.S. of inflicting cancer to Hugo Chavez and said that it was done to fill "Venezuelans" with hate.

The first time that these accusations were made was last week, when Maduro blamed the Bush administration, specifically two agents: Roger Noriega and Otto Reich, both whom have rejected these wild accusations of being true. Also the U.S. has denied this through a spokesman who said: "We reject any accusation that the U.S. government has planned to harm anyone in Venezuela."

Despite these statements by the defendants, Maduro is assuring everyone that this information was obtained from a reliable source.

Maduro who is currently a presidential candidate in Venezuela and the interim president until after the results of a new election, is a retired truck driver of 50 years of age, who was also a union leader and at one point became the right hand man of Chavez.

Capriles has also mentioned that if anything happens to him, Nicolas Maduro would be the person responsible for it, and also accused Maduro of being a poor imitation of Chavez, and ensuring that he will destroy Maduro at the polls on election day, because the followers that Maduro has are those of Chavez and he is not Chavez.

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